Kevin found something fun over at his Kapgar Blog and, even though I actually had a topic today, I decided I wanted to play too.

The deal is that you upload your photo to this MyHeritage site and they match you to their star-studded celebrity database of images to see who you most resemble. In Kevin's case, it ended up being a bunch of women. This had me terribly worried, because he's far more butch than I am.

Anyway, if you want to see my results and read my conclusion, it's all in an extended entry...

I ended up running three different photos so I could get a consensus going. First up, ANGRY DAVE...

David Seamen (63%): Heh heh heh... you said "semen" heh heh heh. No idea who he is.Jerry Lee Lewis (58%):Great balls of fire! singer. He's kind of scary-looking.M. Night Shyamalam (56%): Famous Sixth Sense director. Sweet!George Harrison (53%): A Beatle! That kind of kicks ass!George Lazenby (53%): This is a James Bond guy, but not a famous one. Still, James Bond is cool.Amitabh Bachchan (51%): No clue. An Indian actor, I'm guessing.Juliette Lewis (50%): I blame this on the fact that she looks more like a dude than I look like a chick.Luis Figo (50%): No clue. Any relation to Lou "Incredible Hulk" Ferrigno??Sir Anthony Hopkins (49%): Hannibal Lecter. Well that's just great.Iggy Pop (49%): Now that's just mean!

Next up, SKANKY DAVE...

Alfred Molina (59%): Doctor Octopus! That kicks ass! A good actor too.Charlton Heston (57%): Holy Moses!Abhishek Bachchan (57%): Wait a second... this is a different Bachchan from the last one?!?Luc Besson (54%): One of my most favorite film directors ever, he's hit it with Milla Jovovich!Sebastian Coe (52%): That's the British Olympic guy I think.Colin Farrell (50%): The sleazy actor? Sweet!Antonin Dvorak (48%): Amazing, but frightening, musical composer.Richard Dreyfuss (47%): Crap actor who I have never liked in anything, including Jaws & Close Encounters.Madhuri Dixit (45%): Whoa! I am so totally hot there! Must be another Indian actress I guess.

Lastly, TOTALLY F#@%ED UP HAIR DAVE...

Tom Green (61%): Unfunny comedian and crap actor who hit it with Drew Barrymore.John Steinbeck (60%): Good, but overrated Grapes of Wrath author.Bobby Charlton (55%): Famous English footballer I think.Luciano Pavarotti (55%): I don't like opera.Gary Cooper (55%): Hey... he was that cool High Noon guy. Nifty!David Duchovny (54%): He kicked ass on X-Files and hit it with Tea Leoni!! My favorite result.Robert Patrick (51%): He was that liquid Terminator guy, which is kind of cool I guess.Alfred Molina (51%): AGAIN?!? Very cool.Iggy Pop (51%): AGAIN?!? Does "MyHeritage" hate me or something?Jonathan Rhys Meyers (50%): He played Elvis. I'd be more impressed if it were real Elvis.

Conclusion?

I don't think that I look like any of these people (except Colin Farrell, of course... I so totally look like Colin Farrell!). Thus I say MyHeritage's "advanced face recognition technology" is full of crap. I am guessing that this means the US government will pay them 500 billion dollars to create "advanced terrorist recognition technology" to safeguard the nation.

On the plus-side, I didn't get matched to a bunch of chicks like poor Kevin did! It must be the beard.

I did this a few weeks ago, and can’t remember all the results, but my one that repeated with different pictures was Bette Davis. And then one time I pulled Indira Ghandi and had to curl up in the corner the rest of the day. My sister, however…her most consistent match *was* Elizabeth Hurley.

I also had a good peppering of very ugly men at the lower end of my results. Quite unsettling.

Mmm-kay, so the only one that’s consistant in your thingy is Iggy Pop, and that’s truly terrifying.

Don’t feel bad tho’, I did this a while back, and whilst mine was AMAZINGLY flattering, I put my son’s BABY picture in the thing (in which he is a light haired, blue eyed baby), and it came out as his closest match being Lenny Kravitz….

On the only picture I had of myself without sunglasses, I got Laura Branagin & Penelope Cruz at 74%, Selma Blair and, get this, Elizabeth Hurley at 70%. I kid you not. I had no idea I was so freakin’ good looking.

Oh and Dave, lizriz is right – you so look like Tom Green in that last one. Sorry…

Dave, while your taste in beautiful women is truly exquisite, I have to wonder…your perfect match shows up in your life. I mean perfect. She’s a SheDave. Delights you in every way. But looks like, oh, let’s just say Kathy Griffin, because I just thought of a comment PaulyD left on my blog about Kathy Griffin after those “Lost” girls got busted for DUI.

What do you do?

Oh, and the sis has been married for 15 years, since she was 20! Me, I waited until I was nearly dead.

This was a lot of fun and slightly addicting. In order to make sure my results were “pure” I actually ran 5 different pictures. Which meant spending lots of time in Photoshop beforehand making sure said pictures were as perfect as possible so as to achieve the best results.

My top results were Rachel Bilson, Charlotte Church, and Kelly Clarkson. BUT I did manage to pull Elizabeth Hurly twice. And Antonio Banderas…go figure.

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